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The plugin has hidden area: wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=meta_data_filter&page=mdf_utilities To display it: open index.php of the plugin (near row #33) find:

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//require plugin_dir_path(__FILE__) . 'ext/utilities.php';

and uncomment it (remove ‘//’ on the beginning of the string) save the file you will find useful utility there ‘Terms to meta’ which allows convert any taxonomy terms slugs or names into meta data p.s. this… read more

When searching works in the redirect mode (not ajax) in tag <body> appears CSS class ‘mdf_search_is_going ‘. This fact can help you with any manipulations with site layout while MDTF search request is going on current page. For example hide smth:

Some times there is troubles with version of MySQL versions on your server, and its generates next error: “WordPress database error You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘OPTION SQL_BIG_SELECTS = 1 /* From [XXX’ at line… read more

Sometimes when MDTF works (searching going), some plugins have conflicts with it. Lets consider an example – one customer wrote me that his ‘membership plugin’ doesn work normally when MDTF making searching, there was some issues. So I suggested simple and quick decision: open index.php of that membership plugin for example (the same for another… read more

This works for shortcode [mdf_custom custom_id=777] with attribute ‘custom_id’ (777 is in the code below) + doesn work with dynamic recount (you can hide count by CSS) Example: http://general.wp-filter.com/category/flowers-posts/ open your current wp theme functions.php file drop there next code:

Assigning of any filter-category automatically (by code in your site) to any post type is necessary when for example a lot of posts should be added by users for example, or by any another reason. For this should be used WordPress hook save_post https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/save_post Here is an example how to realize it: open functions.php file of… read more